Standard TeXmacs styles

The main TeXmacs styles are:

generic

This is the default style when you open a new document. The purpose of this style is to produce quick, informal documents. For this reason, section numbering is disabled and the layout of paragraphs is very simple: instead of indenting the first lines of paragraphs, they are rather separated by white-space.

article

This style may be used for writing short scientific articles, which are subdivided into sections. The numbering of environments like theorems, remarks, etc. is relative to the entire document. If you use the number-long-article package, then the numbers are prefixed by the section number.

book

This is the basic style for writing books. Books are assumed to be subdivided into chapters and numbers of environments are prefixed by the chapter number. In general, it is also comfortable to store each chapter in a separate file, so that they can be edited more efficiently. This issue is explained in more detail in the section about books and multifile documents.

seminar

Documents based on this style are typically printed on slides for presentations using an overhead projector. You may also want to use it when making presentation directly from your laptop, after selecting View→Presentation mode. Notice however, that slides correspond to real pages, whereas you rather should use “switches” in presentation mode.

source

This is the privileged style for editing style files and packages. It enables “source mode”, so that documents are rendered in a way which makes the structure fully apparent. For more details, we refer to the section on the rendering of style files.

The article style admits several variants, so as to make the layout correspond to the policy of specific journals. Currently, we have implemented the TeXmacs analogue of the LaTeX style amsart, as well as the styles acmconf and jsc. Similarly, we are developing styles tmarticle and tmbook which provide an alternative layout for articles and books.

In addition to variants of the article and book styles, TeXmacs provides also a few other styles, which are based on the main styles, but which provide some additional markup.

letter

This style is based on the informal generic style, but it provides additional markup for writing letters. The additional macro are mainly used for headers and endings of letters.

exam

This style, which is again based on generic, provides some additional markup for headers of exams. It also customizes the rendering of exercises.

tmdoc

This style is used for writing the TeXmacs documentation. It contains several tags for special types of content and extensions for linking, indexing, document traversal, etc.. Some aspects of this style are still under heavy development.